{"id":18,"date":"2014-07-02T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T09:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itso.dk\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2014-07-31T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:50:07","slug":"java-the-ask-toolbar-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Java &#038; the Ask Toolbar from hell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">This us how you prevent the Ask toolbar when installing Java.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">If you download the Java Offline utility, then you will not get the bundled crapware.<br \/>\nYou can usually download from the official\u00a0<a style=\"color: #457a4b;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.java.com\/\">Java download page<\/a>: Java or from the direct link:<a style=\"color: #457a4b;\" href=\"http:\/\/javadl.sun.com\/webapps\/download\/AutoDL?BundleId=83383\">http:\/\/javadl.sun.com\/webapps\/download\/AutoDL?BundleId=83383<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Another option is to install Java through:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #457a4b;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ninite.com\/\">Ninite<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Preventing ask.com domain through Hostfile:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Open start menu<br \/>\nType: notepad<br \/>\nRight click on that, and select &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;<br \/>\nOpen file &#8220;c:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts&#8221;<br \/>\nAdd the following line without the quotationsmarks and save file.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;ask.com 127.0.0.1&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">When you have done this, whenever your programs request the ask.com domain, the request get redirected to itself, effectively cutting all ties to the ask.com website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This us how you prevent the Ask toolbar when installing Java. If you download the Java Offline utility, then you will not get the bundled crapware. You can usually download from the official\u00a0Java download page: Java or from the direct link:http:\/\/javadl.sun.com\/webapps\/download\/AutoDL?BundleId=83383 Another option is to install Java through:\u00a0Ninite Preventing ask.com domain through Hostfile: Open start &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/?p=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Java &#038; the Ask Toolbar from hell!&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-tip","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}